WCC - STD output file variables

Products

• Autosys Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Our customer wants a job to create the std error file containing the date on the file name.  The job runs every 5 minutes and they want a single file created each day for all cycles.

Do you have any suggestions for that?

Environment

Autosys 11.x 12.x

Cause

 

 

Resolution

assuming we are talking about a Command job as the job type was not specified.

This should not be a problem.
If you change the job definition to use the >> operator this will change the process from an overwrite to an append operation:

You can review detailed examples in the below link:
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/intelligent-automation/autosys-workload-automation/12-0-01/reference/ae-job-information-language/jil-job-definitions/std-out-file-attribute-redirect-the-standard-output-file.html

Below is a KB on using a Global variable to set a date on a standard out file as well
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=32782